A Celebration of the Field of Systems and Control, Preliminary Program

Venue: Hall E1, KTH. (a map with the conference and reception locations.)

Schedule, Wednesday, September 9, 2009

8.30 - 9.15
Registration
9.15 - 9.30
Opening Remarks
9.30 - 10.00 John Baillieul, Searching for Solutions to Random Problems
10.00 - 10.30 Tom Banks, Propagation of Uncertainty in Structured Dynamical Systems
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Jan Willems, Ports and Terminals
11.30 - 12.00 John Burns, A Distributed Parameter Control Approach to Optimal Actuator and Sensor Placement for Control, Filtering and Smoothing
12.00 - 12.30 Xiren Cao, Dynamic Programming vs Direct Comparison in Optimization
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30 Daizhan Cheng, A Survey on Boolean Control Networks
14.30 - 15.00 Karl Johan Åström, Event Based Control
15.00 - 15.30 Michel Gevers, Connecting identifiability, informativity, information matrix and transfer of excitation in Prediction Error Identification
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30 Graham Goodwin, Sequential Bayesian Filtering via Minimum Distortion Quantization
16.30 - 17.00 Lei Guo, Optimization and Identification in Non-equilibrium Dynamic Games
17.00 - 17.30 Uwe Helmke, Decidability criteria for unimodular equivalence of polynomial matrices
18.30 - 20.00 Reception (Place: Lindstedtsv. 15, KTH)

Schedule, Thursday, September 10, 2009

9.00 - 9.30 Anthony Bloch, Control Theory and Integrable Systems
9.30 - 10.00 Hidenori Kimura, Reflex-type Regulation of Biped Robot
10.00 - 10.30 Michele Pavon, Application of a global inverse function theorem of Byrnes and Lindquist to a multivariable moment problem with complexity constraint
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Arthur Krener, Principal Tangent System Reduction
11.30 - 12.00 Alexander Kurzhansky, Multiagent control synthesis under state constraints
12.00 - 12.30 Sanjoy Mitter, The Variational View of Nonlinear Estimation
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
14.00 - 18:00 Sight Seeing
19.00 - 23.00 Banquet

Schedule, Friday, September 11, 2009

9.30 - 10.00 Manfred Morari, Low Complexity Model Predictive Control
10.00 - 10.30 Stephen Morse, The Convergence Constant of a Complete Gossip Sequence
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Alberto Isidori, Advances on the problem of output regulation for non-minimum-phase systems
11.30 - 12.00 Rodolphe Sepulchre, On the geometry of low-rank filtering
12.00 - 12.30 Anders Rantzer, Distributed procedures for control synthesis
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30 Joachim Rosenthal, Pole placement in characteristic p
14.30 - 15.00 Jana Nemcova and Jan H. van Schuppen, Rational systems - Realization and identification
15.00 - 15.30 Roger Brockett, Existence and synchronization of oscillations in some highly interconnected systems
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30 Yutaka Yamamoto, Path Integrals and Bezoutians for a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Systems
16.30 - 17.00 György Michaletzky, Covariance extension approach to Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation, Kimura-Georgiou-parameterization and regular solutions of Sylvester-equations
17.00 - 17.30 Giorgio Picci, Reciprocal processes, Circulant band extension problems and Maximum Entropy